Baby Foods: What's Best for Baby? - We all know we’re experimental guinea pigs for the food industry. The thousands of additives and pesticides that form part of our daily fare mean that...

Pesticides - The poisons all around us - Levels of pesticides found in our bodies are dangerously above those reckoned to be safe and could be responsible for many cancers and the epidemic of...

Probiotic Drinks - First there was plain yoghurt, then fruit yoghurts, then yoghurt drinks, and now everyone ’s talking about - and apparently consuming - gut-friendly p...

Fluoride: lowering IQ's? - New studies from China show that an excessive intake of fluoride can accumulate in the brain, permanently reducing a child’s intelligence.

If you take supplements, register your vote now - The Food Standards Agency website (www.food.gov.uk) has a ‘poll’ on whether people take food supplements.

Officials respond to microwave health alert - Following the recent article on the microwave ovens by Simon Best (WDDTY, vol 10 no 12), I decided to write to the Food Standards Agency expressing my...

Poison in the pool - During the UK's national Swimfit week in June I took my 14-month-old son to our local pool. It was so dirty I refused to take him in. Sunlight streami...

Autism: Pesticides on farms may be a trigger - Children who are exposed to agricultural pesticides while developing in the womb are six times more likely to develop autism. The first eight weeks af...